10 Absolutely Pathetic Packaging Fails

The UK alone produces 400 million tonnes of waste each year, most of which ends up festering in landfill sites. Packaging (mainly plastics, paper, glass and aluminium) makes up a large chunk of this waste, but so much of it used these days is unnecessary.

With climate change now a priority for so many, it’s perhaps surprising that the amount of packaging used each year is on the rise. A preoccupation with cleanliness, however, is fuelling ever-greater demand for packaged food products and other goods. While wrapping meat, for example, demonstrates good hygiene, packaging individual bananas and dried fruits is clearly insane!

Most are not isolated incidents, but evidence of the systemic overuse of packaging materials by many of the biggest multinationals. Above all, over-packaging is an environmental problem, but lest we forget it’s the consumer who must pay for its disposal and spending 15 minutes needlessly unwrapping a tiny item is unbelievably frustrating! Below you’ll find 10 examples of packaging gone mad.

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